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On Tuesday the Supreme Court ordered the California State prison system, which has had troubles with overcrowding, to reduce its population by 33,000 inmates. While the ruling only applies to California, Louisiana and other...

News surfaced today that the competency hearing to determine whether or not Jared Loughner (the suspect in the shootings which injured AZ congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, and left another 14 wounded and 6 dead) is fit to...

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure, was weakened this week when the Supreme Court ruled on Kentucky v. King. The ruling supported the Kentucky Police’s...

As news emerged last night that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a raid on a Pakistani compound by US Special Forces, an interesting story emerged of a man who live-blogged the raid without knowing what he was doing....

For two and a half years the “birther” movement has questioned whether President Obama is a natural born citizen and eligible to be commander in chief, despite the fact that his standard short form certificate has been...

John LaBruzzo, a Republican state legislator from Metairie (who last made headlines in ’08 when he announced that he was studying a plan to pay poor women $1000 to get their tubes tied), has filed a bill which would ban

NOLA.com reported today that the week of May 10 has been set as the tentative date for a federal appeals court to hear oral arguments in William Jefferson’s appeal of his federal corruption conviction. Mr. Jefferson who

For over nine months a video of Houston Police Department officers beating the burglary suspect Chad Holley was suppressed and hidden from the public. Even as the video was released to activist Quannell and then given to a...

Alongside half-mile tunnels and submarines, catapults have been added to the list of odd devices used by smugglers to get drugs over the U.S.-Mexican border. Last week Mexican authorities seized a 9 foot tall catapult as well

Jamie Scott has served sixteen years in a Mississippi prison all the while receiving semi-daily dialysis treatment. Miles away her sister, Gladys Scott, has been imprisoned for the same crime, but Governor Haley Barbour will

In a story that has garnered considerable attention today, Leon Walker, a man from the suburbs of Detroit, is being charged by prosecutors for accessing his wife’s e-mail account and reading her e-mails. Prosecutors in

With the approach of the Sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War, states throughout the Southern region of the United States have seen an increase in Civil War Reenactments. One of the most prominent reenactments is...

A Federal Judge in Virginia has ruled in favor of a lawsuit filed in March by Virginia Attorney General, Kevin Cuccinelli which claims that the mandate requiring almost everyone in the U.S. to have health insurance as part of

Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, was arrested yesterday in London in conjunction with an international warrant that was issued by the Swedish government on charges of sexual assault. Assange is facing one count of unlawful

Happy Thanksgiving from Bloom Legal Network! While Thanksgiving is a wonderful time during which many travel home to be with friends and family as well as to prepare for the upcoming Saints vs Cowboys game, it also represents

There has been a lot of controversy over the TSA’s new guidelines on airport security measures. The new guidelines state that some passengers will be chosen for a full body scan, and if they refuse, will receive an...

The Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act, also called Proposition 19, was the latest and possibly most successful attempt to legalize marijuana. With national support for the legalization of cannabis at 46 percent, the...

The Voodoo Music Fest will launch its 3-day weekend run of festivities tomorrow. The festival in its 11th year of production has grown to quite a considerable size and plays host to some of the biggest national touring acts...